• The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast...
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  • production is King John from 1899. NOTE: "ShakespeaRe-Told", "The Animated Shakespeare" and "BBC Television Shakespeare" series have been covered above, under...
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  • Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators is a British drama mystery television series set in Stratford-upon-Avon and produced by BBC Birmingham....
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  • The Taming of the Shrew on screen (category Television shows based on plays)
    and Richard Burton in 1967. On television, perhaps the most significant adaptation is the 1980 BBC Television Shakespeare version, directed by Jonathan...
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    Bernard Hill (category English male television actors)
    Performance by an Actor. He also appeared on television in I, Claudius (1976), the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of Henry VI, Part 1, 2, and 3,...
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    Revenger's Tragedy, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1967 Diana, All's Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon...
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  • Leonard Rossiter (category English male television actors)
    Channel 4 in 1983. Rossiter also played the title role in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Life and Death of King John (1984). His last...
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    Gemma Jones (category Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award (television) winners)
    of Duke Street. In 1980, she played the role of Portia in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Merchant of Venice, opposite Warren Mitchell's...
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  • Rebecca Saire (category English television actresses)
    attention when, at the age of fourteen, she played Juliet for the BBC Television Shakespeare series. Sybil in Private Lives (National Theatre) Eliante in The...
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    Suzanne Bertish (category English television actresses)
    roles in the 1982 television version of the complete play. She was later seen in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of...
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    The Tempest | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". collections.shakespeare.org.uk. "RSC Performances | CAP197806 - Captain Swing | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust"...
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  • Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of...
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  • by William Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors may also refer to: The Comedy of Errors (musical), adapted by Trevor Nunn BBC Television Shakespeare - Season Six...
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    Alun Armstrong (category Royal Shakespeare Company members)
    eight-hour Royal Shakespeare Company stage adaptation of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby that was filmed for television in 1982. He has appeared...
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  • comedy by William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing may also refer to: Much Ado About Nothing (1973 film) BBC Television Shakespeare – Season Seven –...
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  • This is a list of television programmes broadcast by the BBC either currently or previously broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom. Programmes in this...
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  • Mary Morris (category British television actresses)
    BBC Television Shakespeare) – Duchess of Gloucester Doctor Who (1982) – Panna Diana (1984) – Miss Westcott The Life and Death of King John (1984, BBC...
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  • Paul Chapman (actor) (category English male television actors)
    the Nog. In the early 1980s he appeared in several roles in the BBC Television Shakespeare. He was known in the late 1980s for playing Harwell Mincing in...
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    the concluding scene should be staged. Elijah Moshinsky in his BBC Television Shakespeare version in 1981 had his Bertram (Ian Charleson) give Helena a...
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    Jeffrey Holland (actor) (category English male television actors)
    well known for roles in television sitcoms, playing comic Spike Dixon at the 'Maplin's holiday camp' in Hi-de-Hi!, as well as BBC Radio comedy, including...
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    king's noble companion before Agincourt. in the 1979 season of the BBC Television Shakespeare series, Gordon Gostelow also played Bardolph in the episodes of...
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    discussed below, two productions for BBC Television (including Jonathan Miller's for the BBC Television Shakespeare series, discussed below), Basil Dearden's...
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    Prunella Scales (category Television personalities from Surrey)
    For the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982) she played Mistress Page and in the Theatre Night series (BBC) she appeared...
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    into an opera which premiered in 1974 in Prague. In 1983, the BBC Television Shakespeare series produced a version of the play. It starred Alan Howard...
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  • Ramaz Chkhikvadze The Tragedy of Richard III (1983 film), part of BBC Television Shakespeare Richard III (1986 film), a French film with Ariel García Valdés;...
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  • Janet Key (category English television actresses)
    and Cleopatra for the ambitious BBC Television Shakespeare project. Key became a familiar face on British television through many guest appearances in...
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  • Robert Lindsay (actor) (category Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners)
    has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in musical theatre, and is the recipient of a British Academy Television Award, a Tony Award, and two...
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  • John Stride (category English male television actors)
    Macbeth (1971) he played the role of Ross. For the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Shakespeare's Henry VIII (1979), he was cast in the title role...
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    PROS-pər-o) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Twelve years before the play begins, Prospero is usurped...
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  • ShakespeaRe-Told is the umbrella title for a series of four television adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays broadcast on BBC One during November...
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